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Grovelling vs Sordid - What's the difference?

grovelling | sordid |

As a verb grovelling

is (british).

As a noun grovelling

is the act of one who grovels.

As an adjective sordid is

dirty or squalid.

grovelling

English

Alternative forms

* (US) groveling

Verb

(head)
  • (British)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who grovels.

    • sordid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dirty or squalid.
  • Morally degrading.
  • * 1912 ,
    • He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky.They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world.
  • Grasping.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * sordidity * sordidly * sordidness

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